That said, I have been meaning to address Bucky’s sexist attitude towards Sharon. He’s the one who kept stating he wanted to help “Cap’s girl.” It’s not really a problem with the writer in my eyes, this is just characterization. Bucky’s from the 1940s. He was raised on an all-male military training base in the 1930s. With that background his attitudes about women are probably just a bit more enlightened than those of Thag the Mammoth Hunter.
That is something I'd noticed as well, and while I'm sure that fresh-to-the-new-century Bucky has his sexist tendencies, I'm not sure that his protective attitude toward Sharon as "Cap's girl" is in that category. He doesn't seem to have any difficulty accepting Natasha as an equal, after all. (And of course he isn't entirely new to the modern era, although a lot of his experiences would have been colored by his Soviet indoctrination.) I think it probably has more to do with the fact that he sees her mainly in terms of her connection with Steve. Plus he hasn't had any opportunity to get to know her as a person--when he first met Sam, he thought of him primarily as Steve's friend, but eventually formed his own connection. Under different circumstances, I imagine he could see her as more than part of Steve's life.
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Yeah, I'd have to agree with you totally concerning Bucky. As you stated, he doesn't know anything about Shanon, except for the fact that she was indeed Steve's girlfriend. So, it would make sense that he would refer to her as such.
I myself do the same thing that Bucky is doing here. If I don't really know someone, I usually refer to them as "her boyfriend" or "his aunt" or something like that.
I can't think of any examples of Bucky running around acting in a manner that had me thinking, "Wow, he's a sexist pig!"
If anything, the Soviets probably would have programmed Bucky to act as contemporary as possible, so that way he wouldn't cause any suspicions by acting like he was straight out of 1945.
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